Edmund Purdom
Acting · Born 1924-12-20 · age 84 at death · Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1924 – 1 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then later in America on Broadway, until making his way to Hollywood, and eventually spent the remainder of his life appearing in Italian cinema. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in 1954's historical epic The Egyptian. By taking over important roles exited by Mario Lanza and Marlon Brando, Purdom was known by the mid-1950s as "The Replacement Star". Between the 1970s and 90s, he was a regular in European genre cinema, working with directors like Juan Piquer Simón, Joe D'Amato, Sergio Martino, Ruggero Deodato.
Titles
The Diary of Anne Frank
Pieces
Julius Caesar
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
Titanic
Absurd
The Egyptian
2019: After the Fall of New York
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Blackie the Pirate
The Rift
The Fifth Cord
Don't Open Till Christmas
The Scarlet and the Black
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
The Winds of War
Rulers of the City
The Night Child
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Knights Of The Quest
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Concorde Affair
Invaders of the Lost Gold
The Suspects
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
The Student Prince
The Seventh Scroll
The Devil's Lover
The King's Thief
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
The Beauty Jungle
The Loves of Salammbo
The Prodigal
The Comedy Man
The New Godfathers
Don Bosco
Athena
The Man Who Laughs
The Assisi Underground
Lafayette
Thomas
Strange Intruder
Herod the Great
The Last of the Vikings
Theatre 625
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
The Big Family
Assault on Fort Texan
Deep Thoughts
Texas Jim
Karzan, Jungle Lord
Gun Shy Piluk
Killer vs Killers
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Champagne in paradiso
From the Archives of the Criminal Police
The Squirrel
The Night They Killed Rasputin
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
7 Signs of Christ's Return